📖 Определения и значения для слова evade
📒 to escape from somebody/something or avoid meeting somebody
- For two weeks they evaded the press.
- He managed to evade capture.
- They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching.
📒 to find a way of not doing something, especially something that legally or morally you should do
- The defendant had tried to evade payment of taxes.
- She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour.
- He never sought to evade his responsibilities.
📒 to avoid dealing with or talking about something
- evade something Come on, don't you think you're evading the issue?
- evade doing something to evade answering a question
- Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether.
📒 to not come or happen to somebody
- The answer evaded him (= he could not think of it).